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Yes, I did try creating a shell script to run both commands. For whatever reason I get no ouput when running the script versus the single command. A bit perplexing. Regardless, I appreciate your...

Thank you. The first option seems to work, but the second gives no output. I'll try to work with the first options. I appreciate your time.

Hi. Is there a way to:

1) produce a listing of .log files
2) older than 5 years of age
3) that includes the full path and filename together with one file per line

Any help producing such a...

Thank you both. Have it working now. Thanks for your time.

Hi. I define my variables as:

month=jul
DD=17
YEAR=2012
transmission_file_name_only=test_$month$DD$YEAR_partial.dat

However when I run my script the variable 'transmission_file_name_only'...

Hi. I'm attempting to copy 4 text files together to create one larger file. All four files contain text in the same format. Can I do this?


I attempted this, but it didn't work:


cp...

jayan_jay you rock. Thank you so much!

Hi. I'm hoping there is a simple method where I'm able to generate a datetime string that looks like this (yyyymmddhhmm):

201106280830

The tricky part would be that I need this string to...

Hi. I'd like to have an IF-Then-Else statement where I can check to see if a file exists? We have the Bourne Shell by default. I'm looking for the syntax to do something like this:

if...

Thanks so much for taking the time to help. Much appreciated.

Hi. I expect the following unix script command to return 8:

ls -ltr dropez* | grep -c dropez

I can't seem to find the correct syntax (borne shell), can anyone help be to write an IF condition...

Hmm...my system is AIX 5.3. Is this what you mean? Does this help?

Hmm, just returning:


grep -A 10 -B 10 -E 'ERROR' myfile.txt
grep: Not a recognized flag: A

Hi. I have a unix script 'if' condition that greps through a file and searches for the strings ERROR and WARNING.


if egrep -q 'ERROR|WARNING' myfile.txt; then


When this 'if' condition is...

You rock! Thanks so much!

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Hi. Can I include more than one email address in this command? If so,...

Perfect. Thanks for taking the time to help!

I have the need to search a text file from my unix script to determine if it contains the strings of: 'ERROR' and/or 'WARNING'.

By using Grep I can search the file and return a where one of these...

Hi. Question from a novice. I'd like to have a unix script that sends me an email message, but I have no clue on the syntax. I do know this works from my mailtest.sh script:


/usr/lib/sendmail...

Thanks so much for the help and alternative ideas. I appreciate you taking the time to help.

I'm using the Find command to search a folder and find files that are newer than a particular date/time and add them to a Tar file:


find . -type f -newer 201010181131 -exec tar -rvf myTarFile...

Thank you both for the solutions. Great help...I appreciate it.

I'm working on a 'find' command which uses the -exec option to tar a listing of files that it finds. Is there a single option available that would both 1) create the TAR file if it doesn't exist...

You rock. Thank you.

Hi. Our shop is migrating to a new UNIX server and our hope is to do a full migration of all files to the new server weeks in advance of the final migration. As a result we want to identify files...

This worked perfectly! I really appreciate the help.